David S Harvey

“A coward is a man who is afraid and runs away; the man who is frightened but does not run away, is not quite a coward," said the prince with a smile, after a moment's thought.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“One senses that we are poised here on a fulcrum, that a standing or falling point has been reached, that somehow being a disciple of Jesus is intimately tied up with how one stands in regard to the Eucharist. In response to Jesus’ question, Peter, as is often the case in the Gospels, spoke for the group: “Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God” (John 6:68–69).”
― Robert Barron, This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

“Once upon a time, I thought Communion was a ritual. Then I encountered the Eucharist as a thin place to meet with God over and over again.”
― Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God

“Sometimes it occurs to me that I am a member of the first generation of followers of Yahweh in six thousand years for whom the offering of daily fixed-hour worship and praise and prayer—a tradition practiced and treasured and passed down to us from the Hebrews to the apostles to the early Christians to the fathers and mothers of the faith who sustained this Church we now call home—is no longer deemed a necessity or an obligation or a duty or even an opportunity.”
― Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer